UPDATE: It's Criminal What Dino Rossi Is Saying About Crime

I wrote last week about the irony of Dino Rossi and his surrogates attacking Gov. Gregoire for being "soft on crime" when it was the Rossi budget that released prisoners early and cut community supervision.

Joe Turner, the ever-observant reporter from the News Tribune, made the same point when he noted it was the Rossi/Locke budget in 2003 that "...shortened prison sentences for drug offenders and residential burglars and cut the community supervision (parole officers') budget by having them watch fewer ex-cons."

Obviously, the Gregoire campaign isn't about to concede the public safety issue. The following ad hit the airwaves last week:



-- Dennis